The unemployment rate has been going up and the number of jobs that do exist but fail to pay a living wage is going up fast. Put those percentages together and you get what I call the Job Market Failure Index.
Brian Rusche, the Executive Director of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition hits the nail on the head, here: what we’re seeing is a jobless recovery where what few jobs that are available don’t create family-supporting wages. This is undignified and unjust.
